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The Writers’ Guild

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Executive Committee Member, Wales
Organiser, The Media and Devolution – what do we need to know?
18th September 2013 Chapter Arts Centre
The Pros and Cons of Devolving Control of the Media to Wales – Speaker: Aled Eirug.
A  Guild Members Only event.
Facilitator of the submission from the Guild in Wales to the Commission on Devolution in Wales (Silk) September 2013
Union Learning Adviser for The Writers’ Guild 2009 – 2014
Identifying and responding to members’ training and development needs. ULA information

Rhyme and Reason: Reflections on a Changing UK

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Photo: Iwan Bala
Photo: Iwan Bala

The H’mm Foundation commissioned me to write and read 2 poems about the debate on UK Devolution from a Northern Irish perspective in an evening of Poetry and Music along with Gillian Clarke, Jasmine Donahaye, Christine De Luca.

Millennium Centre, Cardiff  11th Sept 2014

Poem:

The Scottish Referendum

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

* Carraig Uisneach is a rock jutting out from the north-eastern tip of Ireland which was from ancient times a point of arrival from and departure for Scotland.

Deirdre of the Sorrows risked returning to it from safe haven in Scotland with the three Sons of Uisneach: her lover, Naisi and his brothers.

 Uladh and Alba: Gaelic names for Ulster and Scotland

Other Industry Activity

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The Welsh Academy Writers’ Fair   A Novel Pitch –  with Jasper Rees.
Pitching creative ideas, in person or in writing, to a publisher or agent. Nov 2012.
BAFTA Cymru/Wales Current Affairs Jury Member, 2012
Chair, The Media and Me: Leveson, Accountability and the Media in Wales,
Welsh Labour Festival Opening Session: July 2012.
Speakers: Chris Bryant, M.P., Ken Skates, A.M. and David Donovan, National Officer, BECTU.

Rhys Davies Short Story Competition Finalist

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               Academi / Rhys Davies Short-story Competition, 2010.
FINALIST “Life-Task”.  Anthologised in Getting Up, Leaf Books.
“Life-Task by Angela Graham is one of those quiet, nuanced narratives that refract light into the depths of human tragedy. The story – oblique, harrowing, beautiful – bears witness to the personal cost of war…Graham haunts the memories of her readers with the paradoxical climax of her tale. In her hands the short story is a brief epic of suspenseful waiting and reversal, told in the minor key.”
Stevie Davies and Niall Griffiths – Judges.